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What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Certain proteins might not be synthesized under a particular condition. Gene expression changes under different environmental conditions. Recognizing that not all potential ORFs will encode for proteins, it becomes difficult to determine all of the proteins within an organism, thus the proteome is only the proteins expressed under specific conditions.
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